Discovery's Safely on the Ground

[Fraser]

Discovery and its crew are safely back on the ground after a 13-day trip into space to visit the International Space Station. The shuttle detached from the station on Sunday, and then landed Monday morning in Florida at 1414 GMT (9:14 am EDT). After landing, the astronauts performed the traditional shuttle walkaround, and found the spacecraft surprisingly undamaged after its trip to space and back. The space shuttle Atlantis will be moved to the launch pad in early August to prepare for its upcoming mission to deliver a truss to the station.

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[TuTone]

That's great news! NASA`s on a roll

[ASEI]

Yay. I feared the worst when I learned that their power system was leaking. Hydrazine isn't the nicest stuff to be exposing to equipment/high temperatures.

[TwAgIssmuDe]

Iam really glad that it was a succesfull mission, it marks the return of the shuttlefleet, or atleast until the fleet is retired in 2010. Now construction on the ISS can partialy resume, if things contineu to go well, we may have an almost complete ISS in a few years.